The Jar

There was a jar that had a crack,

much content for this did it lack;

it wished to love it could be back

to unmarred state before a whack;

but when the potter went to mend it,

it balked, for his love did offend it.

The jar is representative of Israel as I think it is in the book of Jeremiah, and could be thought of as spiritual Israel, i.e. the gentiles grafted in included as well, to inherit God’s promise, but who has not embraced the way of life expected of a Christian, or it could be considered only ethnical Israelites, i.e. the orthodox Jew who refuses Christ.